The 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing
Systems (SDCS-2005), to be held in conjunction with the 25th
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005),
June 6-9, 2005, Columbus, OH, USA.

Workshop website: http://securityworkshop.ece.iastate.edu

PURPOSE:

Cyber security is a research area of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, interest has increased in the field of security of distributed computing systems, since securing a large-scale networked system becomes a great challenge, which include the following: specification, analysis, and design of protocols, access control mechanisms, mobile code security, denial-of-service attacks, trust management, modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area, to allow interaction of security researchers and developers with the distributed systems communities, and to give attendees of ICDCS 2005 an opportunity to network with experts in cyber security.  We will focus our program on issues related to important properties of system security, such as measurability, sustainability, affordability, and usability in distributed computing systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We are interested not only in the newest results in computer security theories, but also in the more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  * Distributed Access Control and Trust Management

  * Key Management and Authentication

  * Privacy and Anonymity

  * Benchmark and Security Analysis

  * Security for Peer to Peer systems and Grid Computing Systems

  * Secure Multicast and Broadcast

  * Secure multiparty and two-party computations

  * Computer and Network Forensics

  * Denial-of-service Attacks and Countermeasures

  * Secure E-Commerce/E-Business

  * Security Verification

  * Distributed Database Security

  * Digital Rights Management

  * Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code

  * Intrusion detection

  * Viruses, Worms, and Other Malicious Code

  * Security in ad-hoc and sensor networks

  * World Wide Web Security

Workshop Organization

General Chair: Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University

Program Chair: Yong Guan, Iowa State University

Program Committee Members:

Terry Benzel, University of South California

Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kai Hwang, University of South California

Douglas Jacobson, Iowa State University

Carl Landwehr, NSF

Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Ninghui Li, Purdue University

Peng Liu, Penn State University

Daniel Massey, Colorado State University

Clifford Neuman, University of South California

Peng Ning, North Carolina State University

Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University

Michael Oehler, DoD

Daniel Ragsdale, United States Military Academy

Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University

Pierangela Samarati, Universita’ di Milano, Italy

Chita Das, Penn State University

Haining Wang, College of William and Mary

Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University

Lixia Zhang, University of California at Los Angeles

Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary

IMPORTANT DATES:

  Paper Submission Deadline:  January 10, 2005

  Notification of Acceptance: February 10, 2005

  Final Manuscript Due:    February 28, 2005

  Workshop Date:          June 6, 2005

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of unpublished manuscripts or position papers, not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages, to guan@ee.iastate.edu. Submissions should be in PDF format.  Authors should make sure that the submission can be printed on a regular printer that uses standard letter size paper (8.5” x 11”).  Accepted papers will be published in joint formal proceedings with ICDCS-2005 Conference.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: http://securityworkshop.ece.iastate.edu